Curriculum vitae

Expertise:

Evolutionary, chemical, behavioral and molecular ecology

Degrees:  

2006  Dr. rer. nat., Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Germany

2000  Diploma Biology, FU Berlin

Working experience:

Since 2018 Associate professor (tenured) at Biosystematics group, Wageningen University (WU), The Netherlands

2016 Assistant professor (tenure-track) at Biosystematics group, WU

2016 Humboldt research fellow at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in the group of Prof. Martin Kaltenpoth, Germany

2015 Guest professorship 'Evolutionary ecology of insects' at Institute of Biology, FU Berlin

2014 DFG research fellow in the group of Prof. Monika Hilker Applied Zoology/ Animal Ecology at FU Berlin

2007 Postdoc at Laboratory of Entomology of Prof. Marcel Dicke, WU (DFG Walter Benjamin fellow and NWO VENI fellow)

 

Grants and scholarships:

2021  Open competition grant (M1) by Dutch Research Council, NWO

2015  Personal grant for talented experienced researchers to develop own research line (NWO VIDI)

2014  Alexander van Humboldt Research fellowship for experienced researchers

2014  DFG research stipend for postdoc by German Research Foundation (DFG SFB 973 'Organismal stress responses: priming and memory')

2014  NWO Aspasia grant to encourage the promotion of female Vidi grant candidates to an associate professorship

2009  Personal grant for talented young researchers (NWO VENI)

2007  Research fellowship (now Walter Benjamin fellowship) for highly qualified young researchers by , DFG

2006  Exchange grant for young scientists funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF)

2002  Ph.D. talent grant from the Berliner Graduierten Förderung (NaFöG) at FU Berlin

Invited presentations:

2024 Seminar of Laboratory of Phytopathology, WUR, The Netherlands

2023 DCPS seminar, FU Berlin, Germany

2023 SLU Alnarp, Sweden

2023 Chemical Ecology of parasitoids, Florence, Italy (online)

2023 Entomology congress, Bolzano, Italy

2020 Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Lunteren, The Netherlands

2019 Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne, Germany

2018 12th annual EPS workshop on Plant-insect interactions, Leiden, The Netherlands

2018 Dies Natalis 100 years. Unravelling Life: Wisdom and wonder. Wageningen, The Netherlands

2017 Gordon Research Conference Plant-Herbivore Interaction, Ventura, CA, USA

2017 Annual meeting Experimental Plant Sciences, Lunteren, The Netherlands

(Co-)Supervision MSc, PhD and Postdocs:

>10 BSc, >40 MSc, 7 PhDs and 5 Postdocs (2004-present)

Teaching activities:

2023-present: Short Research Project, WUR (coordinator)

2016-present: Webs of Terrestrial Diversity (BSc), WUR (coordinator)

2016-present: Biodiversity of the Netherlands (BSc), WUR (coordinator)

2015: Human Ecology - How microbes affect our life (BSc), FU Berlin (coordinator)

2015-2016: Schreiben naturwissenschaftlicher Texte (Scientific writing) (BSc), FU Berlin (lecturer)